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Re: The Windows 8 thread.

Originally Posted by grimmster

decided to jump right in and updated my win 7 to win 8 and go at it full bore. D3 did not work, found some work-arounds I had to use to get it to play, but seems to be working fine now. Other than that, everything has worked.

Well, take that back, as I was writing this I needed to find something, so brought up app search, backed out to metro, and that locked up my PC.

I'll still play with it and give it a good month or two, but I'm still skeptical

I updated from a very lean Vista install to Win 8, and it did not transfer all my programs. So beware. But really, the only apps I had on it were Office 2007, and that was easy to reinstall. It did keep the cpu-z hw monitor program oddly enough, but that program has actually crashed a couple of times.

Usually I do clean installs, but I upgraded this just to see what would happen, and despite a few glitches, it's running very well. That said, I would not want to upgrade to Win 8 from an older pre-Win 8 install that had lots of lots of programs on it. Like with any new OS, I could imagine lots of problems doing that.

Re: The Windows 8 thread.

Pretty impressive, what Win 8 will look like on a fast tablet, which then could easily be converted to a desktop et al. Anand has some interesting commentary in the brief article. Very impressive IMHO.

Re: The Windows 8 thread.

I'm looking at several articles on the new MS Surface, and first appears it just seems dumb. I have yet to see one picture showing it used as a tablet. It simply looks like a mini notebook. I guess the cover/keyboard detaches, which begs the question of what are you going to do with a loose cover/keyboard.

No hardware specs, and possibly even a different version of Windows 8. I'm anxious to see how this plays out.

Re: The Windows 8 thread.

Originally Posted by alex666

I'm looking at several articles on the new MS Surface, and first appears it just seems dumb. I have yet to see one picture showing it used as a tablet. It simply looks like a mini notebook. I guess the cover/keyboard detaches, which begs the question of what are you going to do with a loose cover/keyboard.

No hardware specs, and possibly even a different version of Windows 8. I'm anxious to see how this plays out.

Re: The Windows 8 thread.

I did go to the source, saw that first link, did not see the second. Neither answers the following: cpu? Display? RAM? Battery Battery life? Picture of someone using this as a tablet. Is there a camera?

Geez, the cheaper one (on left) only has USB 2.0. They have got to be kidding.

I was really hoping for something much much better than this, as I would love to see someone put Apple's feet to the fire.

Re: The Windows 8 thread.

and now I definitely want the Pro version with the i5 chip. This also brings Win8 into perspective as a very flexible OS for MS' own very flexible tablet. I suspect those Pro versions will sell like hotcakes if they work as well as they appear to in this video, and there's no reason why there should be any problems.

Also, I have had several weeks now to use the latest version of Win 8 on my old laptop (2008 Gateway C2D 2.0GHz) with a Mushkin SSD and I it has been nothing short of amazing. It is the fastest thing.

Re: The Windows 8 thread.

I happened to watch that video from above and I noticed that they made reference to a key on the Surface keyboard that is apparently unique for Metro. That could be interesting and perhaps will fill in a few missing links, like being able to quickly shut down with minimal steps.

For various reasons, I watched that whole presentation from beginning to end, and I must say the Surface is very intriguing. It does have a camera built-in on both sides. I still think USb 2.0 on anything new hardware sucks, but there is USB 3.0 on the i5 version.